Album 61
Synopsis
The World Chess Championship is a juicy battle, rife with passion, power and money. Boris Gelfand has spent his entire life getting ready for this moment; he was raised to become a champion since the age of six. His father devoted all his life to cultivating Boris' talent while obsessively documenting the process. The photo albums tell the father's story as much as that of the son, revealing a simple truth about a man living his own dreams through his son under the Soviet regime. Can any child, given fine Soviet education, become a genius? And is becoming a genius worth the price?
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Principal cast & crew: 15
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Edited by Halil EfratShot by Vitali KrivichScored by Yaniv Fridel
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Cast & Crew
15 unique people credited
Top billed cast
Boris Gelfand
as Self
Viswanathan Anand
as Self
Ilya Smirin
as Self
Albert Kapengut
as Self - Boris Gelfand's coach since 1980
Maxim Rodhstein
as Self - Boris Gelfand's assistant
Pavel Eljanov
as Self - Boris Gelfand's assistant
Evgeny Tomashevsky
as Self - Boris Gelfand's assistant
Armen
as Self - Boris Gelfand's medical assistant
Vladimir Kramnik
as Self
Abram Izakovitsh
as Self - Boris Gelfand's father
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